Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters turned out Saturday to protest against President Vladimir Putin's expected candidacy in elections set for 2018, with police detaining dozens of activists in the second-largest city of Saint Petersburg.

Top Russian opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday said he might apply for political asylum in Britain after Moscow issued an international warrant for his arrest.

Russian investigators said today that top Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky had been put on the international wanted list after he was charged with murder earlier this month.

Russian investigators today raided the apartments of employees of Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia group, less than two weeks after Moscow charged the former tycoon with murder.

Russian investigators today charged ex-oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky with organising the 1998 murder of a mayor in Siberia, ratcheting up their campaign against the exiled former Yukos boss.

Russian investigators have summoned Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky for questioning saying he is charged over a 1998 murder, the website of the former head of Yukos oil company said today.

A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence today for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.

Exiled Russian former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged the EU to target sanctions more closely against key officials over the Ukraine crisis, saying ordinary Russians were taking the brunt of the pain.

Russian Interpol has launched a hunt for a powerful Kremlin insider turned critic who was once known as "Putin's Banker" but more recently ran into bankruptcy and left the country.

Ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after opposing the Kremlin, openly stated his political ambitions on Saturday by announcing he would be ready, if called upon, to lead Russia in times of crisis.

Defying strongman Vladimir Putin from his self-imposed exile, ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Saturday launched an ambitious movement to unite pro-European Russians in a bid to challenge the Kremlin's grip on power.

A European court on Thursday ordered Russia to pay damages for putting defendants in metal cages in court, a practice it condemned as "degrading treatment." The enclosures have held opposition figures, Greenpeace activists and untold numbers of less-prominent suspects across the country.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev walked free on Friday after more than 10 years in prison, following in his better-known associate's footsteps after the Russian Supreme Court shortened his sentence.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was freed by Moscow last month after a decade in jail, has travelled from Switzerland to Israel on a private visit.

He is wanted in his native Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. He was ordered jailed in Britain.

Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters turned out Saturday to protest against President Vladimir Putin's expected candidacy in elections set for 2018, with police detaining dozens of activists in the second-largest city of Saint Petersburg.

Top Russian opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday said he might apply for political asylum in Britain after Moscow issued an international warrant for his arrest.

Russian investigators said today that top Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky had been put on the international wanted list after he was charged with murder earlier this month.

Russian investigators today raided the apartments of employees of Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia group, less than two weeks after Moscow charged the former tycoon with murder.

Russian investigators today charged ex-oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky with organising the 1998 murder of a mayor in Siberia, ratcheting up their campaign against the exiled former Yukos boss.

Russian investigators have summoned Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky for questioning saying he is charged over a 1998 murder, the website of the former head of Yukos oil company said today.

A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence today for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.

Exiled Russian former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged the EU to target sanctions more closely against key officials over the Ukraine crisis, saying ordinary Russians were taking the brunt of the pain.

Russian Interpol has launched a hunt for a powerful Kremlin insider turned critic who was once known as "Putin's Banker" but more recently ran into bankruptcy and left the country.

Ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after opposing the Kremlin, openly stated his political ambitions on Saturday by announcing he would be ready, if called upon, to lead Russia in times of crisis.

Defying strongman Vladimir Putin from his self-imposed exile, ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Saturday launched an ambitious movement to unite pro-European Russians in a bid to challenge the Kremlin's grip on power.

A European court on Thursday ordered Russia to pay damages for putting defendants in metal cages in court, a practice it condemned as "degrading treatment." The enclosures have held opposition figures, Greenpeace activists and untold numbers of less-prominent suspects across the country.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev walked free on Friday after more than 10 years in prison, following in his better-known associate's footsteps after the Russian Supreme Court shortened his sentence.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was freed by Moscow last month after a decade in jail, has travelled from Switzerland to Israel on a private visit.

He is wanted in his native Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. He was ordered jailed in Britain.